Johns Hopkins U. Plans Its First Policy on Academic Freedom

By Benjamin Mueller

The Johns Hopkins University, long considered a standard-bearer
of academic freedom, has decided it is time to formally spell out
its standards on a professor’s right to speak.

In the wake of controversies over the past year that involved
faculty speech, the university announced last month that it would
convene a panel of students and faculty members to write the
university’s first-ever formal statement of principles on academic
freedom.